Re: [PATCH v2] Add MYMETA.yml to perl/.gitignore
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Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc>
- Date
- Dec 3, 2011, 00:07 UTC
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- <20111203000729.GA19672@thinkpad>
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- <7vvcpymti3.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
On Fri, Dec 02, 2011 at 03:41:24PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> Sebastian Morr <sebastian@morr.cc> writes: > > > This file is auto-generated by newer versions of ExtUtils::MakeMaker > > (presumably starting with the version shipping with Perl 5.14). It just > > contains extra information about the environment and arguments to the > > Makefile-building process, and can be safely deleted. > > "safely deleted" sounds as if you made "make clean" remove it. I do not > mind doing s/and can be.*/and should be ignored./ myself, if you want.
You're very welcome to do that.
> Does running "make clean" actually remove it, by the way?
Yes, it does. perl/perl.mak (which, in turn, is generated by MakeMaker via perl/Makefile) takes care of that file explicitly.